Frost history / Ft Gaines 2, GA
Ft Gaines 2, GA: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00093578, 2001 to 2012, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 210 ft, 31.615, -85.049. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Mar 7 | Nov 14 |
| Earliest | Feb 14 (2011) | Oct 30 (2001) |
| Latest | Mar 27 (2006) | Dec 6 (2009) |
| Trend | 18.3 days earlier per decade | 19.4 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 10 | 10 |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Feb 17 and the median first fall date is Dec 8.
The trend is a straight-line fit through the years with a freeze. A positive spring trend means the last frost now comes later. Short or patchy records give noisy trends.
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Last spring frost (32°F)
First fall frost (32°F)
Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.
Year by year
| Year | Last spring 32°F | First fall 32°F | Last spring 28°F | First fall 28°F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Feb 14 | Nov 25 | Feb 14 | Nov 25 |
| 2011 | Feb 14 | Nov 12 | Feb 13 | Dec 1 |
| 2010 | Mar 8 | Nov 28 | Feb 19 | Dec 9 |
| 2009 | no data | Dec 6 | no data | none |
| 2008 | Mar 26 | Nov 1 | Feb 28 | Nov 19 |
| 2007 | Mar 6 | Nov 8 | Feb 20 | none |
| 2006 | Mar 27 | Nov 4 | Feb 27 | Dec 8 |
| 2005 | Mar 19 | Nov 19 | Jan 25 | Dec 22 |
| 2004 | Mar 23 | Nov 16 | Feb 8 | Dec 16 |
| 2003 | Feb 19 | no data | Jan 30 | no data |
| 2002 | Mar 7 | no data | Mar 6 | no data |
| 2001 | no data | Oct 30 | no data | Dec 27 |
"none" means the station recorded no freeze at that threshold in that half of the year. "no data" means more than 10% of the season's daily readings were missing. Years with no usable data are left out. See the methodology for the rules, and the ZIP lookup for 1991 to 2020 frost probabilities.